Lamasz & Grandbruit Return to Past Inside the Present with Fictions

There are collaborations that read as neatly stitched composites, each contributor’s signature visible at the seam. Fictions, the new album from Lamasz and Grandbruit, works differently. The brothers — Pierre Luc and Francis Tremblay — let their practices overlap until the edges disappear, producing a set of pieces that moves as one body.

The record follows four solo releases on Past Inside the Present: Nature Morte and Broderie from Lamasz, Ruptures and Ville inerte from Grandbruit. Where those albums explored tape loop-driven textures and stratified guitar respectively, Fictions brings both impulses into a single frame. Tape hiss carries real compositional weight here, not as background color but as an active element, while processed guitar smears into harmonic tracts.

Error, too, plays a deliberate role — the kind of accident that Eno’s Oblique Strategies might have framed as hidden intention. The result is unhurried, the sort of record that takes its time to settle. Released in early July, Fictions has accumulated resonance slowly, its languorous melodies and manicured noise drifting through listeners with a patience uncommon in digital release cycles.

Fictions adds to a catalog that increasingly treats drift and texture as subject matter in their own right. It is out now on Past Inside the Present.